America the beautiful, in black and white

11:18 PM,
Feb. 19, 2013

Ansel Adams took more than 40,000 photographs in his career and showed in numerous museums and magazines.

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"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved." - Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

Ansel Adams was born on Feb. 20, 1902, in San Francisco. His iconic black-and-white photographs, particularly of Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, became the images Americans hold of our western natural beauty, and though Adams was generally resistant to "art for life's sake," he became a voice for the preservation of our inheritance.